Lenz Prütting

Lenz Prütting (born February 15, 1940 in Forchheim ) is a German theater scholar and philosopher .

Life

Lenz Prütting was born as the son of the teacher Michael Prütting (* 1913) and his wife Marie (* 1918). His father died in August 1942 while on a front mission in World War II while approaching Stalingrad. At the age of thirteen, Lenz Prütting taught himself to play chess with the help of a Reclam booklet. In 1956 he left the secondary school in Forchheim and worked as a miner at the Fritz-Heinrich colliery in Essen-Altenessen until the end of 1957 .

After that, Prütting returned to the Forchheim school and graduated from high school there in 1960. At the age of nineteen he met his future wife Doris (* 1941), who came from East Prussia. The couple married in 1966. He initially studied geology and mineralogy in Erlangen , but after the first semester switched to studying philosophy, German , psychology and theater studies in Erlangen and Munich . In 1970 Lenz Prütting received his doctorate in theater studies from the University of Munich with studies on Georg Fuchs . After completing his doctorate, he worked for ten years at the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Munich. He then worked as a dramaturge and director at various theaters. In the 1980s he was dramaturge at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt , and in the 1990s as chief dramaturge at the Augsburg Municipal Theaters.

Place name sign Göbelsbach.

Prütting translated dramatic texts by Shakespeare , Molière and Synge . His three-volume phenomenological study on laughter was published in 2013 under the title Homo ridens. The work was created between 2001 and 2012, and it is published as volume 21 by the Society for New Phenomenology eV.

The couple Lenz and Doris Prütting live in an old farm in Göbelsbach ( Holledau ), which they acquired in 1976 and restored by hand. The marriage has a daughter Anna (* 1978).

Lenz Prütting was decisively shaped as a philosopher by his teachers Wilhelm Kamlah, Helmuth Plessner and Hermann Schmitz.

Publications

Books

• The theater revolution. Studies on Georg Fuchs, Munich 1971, 476 pages
• Ingolstadt dramaturgy. Program essays from the years 1982–1987, Ingolstadt 1987, 387 pages
• For example Ulm, Stadttheater as a culture-political way of life, Ulm 1991, 175 pages
• Homo ridens. A phenomenological study on the nature, forms and functions of laughter, 3 volumes, Munich / Freiburg 2013, 1947 pages, fourth edition 2016 as a one-volume thin print edition with glossary and registers, 2019 pages

Articles (selection)

• Theater as a weapon. On a festival project by Georg Fuchs in: Kleine Schriften der Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte vol. 25, pp. 60–71
• Gall formation as a literary structural principle in "Zettels Traum", in: Bargfelder Bote, Lfg. 24-25, 1977 pp. 3-15
• The normative and factual genesis of a national theater, in: Roger Bauer / Jürgen Wertheimer (eds.): The end of the impromptu play - The birth of the national theater, Munich 1980, pp. 153-164
• The knowledge test. Hermeneutical problems in dealing with the work of Arno Schmidt, in: Jörg Drews (ed.): Gebirgslandschaft mit Arno Schmidt. Grazer Symposion 1980, Munich 1982, pp. 130–145
• Lexicon article about Arno Schmidt in the Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG), ed. Karl Ludwig Arnold, Munich 1981, 24 pages
• "Doomsday Schtimmenk". Some comments on the theater performance KAFF 68ff, in: Bargfelder Bote, Lfg. 77-78, 1984, pp. 3-16
• News from the penal colony. Some remarks on Johann Karl Wezel's philosophical novel "Belphegor", Frankfurt / M. 1984, pp. 453–502 (afterword)
• The assumed Hamlet syndrome. Experiences with a theater studies past in practical theater work, in: Symposion. The value of studying theater studies for theater practice. Papers and discussions, Cologne 1989, pp. 135–148
• The Darmstadt artists' colony and their approaches to theater reform, in: Aufbruch zur Moderne. The Darmstadt artist colony between tradition and innovation, published by the Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt 1993, pp. 73–90
• Patriotic fantasies. Schubart's vision of a national theater for the Republic of Ulm in a historical context, in: Lenz Prütting (ed.): For example Ulm, Ulm 1991, pp. 54–73
• The true color of the chameleon. Hermeneutical problems in dealing with the work of Arno Schmidt, in: Zettelkasten 10th year book of the Society of Arno Schmidt Readers 1991, published by Rudi Schweikert, Frankfurt / M. 1991, pp. 267-294
• About calling. A few remarks on the phenomenon of transorchestral incorporation, in: Michael Großheim (ed.): Body and feeling. Contributions to anthropology, Berlin 1995, pp. 141–152
• Swimming, hanging, exposing. Three forms of personal regression on the scene. A contribution to the anthropology of the actor, in: Forum Modernes Theater Vol. 14, 1999, Issue 1, pp. 3–31
• Contribution to the anthology: "I was blown away." Arno Schmidt as a defining reading experience. 100 Statements and Stories "as a letter to the editor, in: Volume 6 of the series of publications by the Society of Arno Schmidt Readers, Wiesenbach 2004, pp. 119–124
• 'Faithfulness'. Historical and systematic aspects of a theater-political debate about the limits of theater work, in: Forum Modernes Theater, Volume 21, 2006, Issue 2, pp. 107-189
• "And it boils down to annihilation." About laughter and shame, in: Berliner Debatte Initial, 17th year 2006, issue 1/2, pp. 123-136
• The foreign phase. On the genealogy of personal laughter, in: Happy Science. On the Genealogy of Laughter, ed. Kevin Liggieri, Munich / Freiburg 2015, pp. 208–228, also printed as issue 24 of the Rostock Phenomenological Manuscripts, Rostock 2016; reviewed by Stefan Diebitz in: the blue reiter - Journal for Philosophy, Issue 40: Lachen, 2017, p. 112.
• Born to laugh. A range of laughter, in: the blue reiter - Journal for Philosophy, Issue 40: Laughter 2017, pp. 28–33.
• Open letter to Günther Flemming regarding "Pharos", in: Bargfelder Bote, Lfg, 408-409, February 2017, pp. 15-21

Theater texts

• "Scapin" by Molière, translated and edited, UA Stadttheater Ingolstadt on October 14, 1983, stage manuscript at Theaterverlag Desch, Munich resp. Felix Bloch Erben Berlin, 53 pages
• The conceited patient by Molière, translated and edited, UA Stadttheater Ingolstadt on January 30, 1986, stage manuscript at the theater publisher Desch Munich and Felix Bloch Erben Berlin, 92 pages
• George Dandin von Molière, translated and edited, stage manuscript for the theater publisher Desch Munich and Felix Bloch Erben Berlin
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, translated and edited, stage manuscript at Theaterverlag Desch Munich resp. Felix Bloch heirs of Berlin
• Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, translated and edited, premier at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern on September 27, 1991, stage manuscript at the theater publisher Desch Munich resp. Felix Bloch heirs of Berlin
• The holy source by John Millington Synge, translated, edited and supplemented by a song, stage manuscript at Theaterverlag Desch Munich resp. Felix Bloch heirs of Berlin
• Agnes Bernauer based on motifs by Martin Greif, WP Agnes-Bernauer-Festspiel Vohburg on June 14, 2001

literature

• Elke Schmitter: "You mean laughter is based on comedy?" In: Der Spiegel, No. 8/2015, pp. 56–58.

Web links

• Laughter researcher Lenz Prütting: The orgasm of the soul. By Wolfgang Paterno, in: Profile from July 19, 2014.
• Life's work - century's work. In: The Pfaffenhofener.
• Jürgen Engel: Laughing at last. Review.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bayerischer Rundfunk. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Lenz Prütting: Homo ridens. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, p. 8.
3. ↑ Publishing information for Lenz Prütting: Homo ridens. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013.